UK Skilled Worker Visa Salary Checker

About the UK Skilled Worker Visa Salary Checker

Check whether a job offer meets the Skilled Worker salary rules: the general threshold of £41,700 a year or the occupation’s going rate, whichever is higher, with the going rate pro-rated for the weekly hours, and every lower option the rules allow — a relevant PhD (£37,500 and 90% of the going rate), a STEM PhD (£33,400 and 80%), a job on the Immigration Salary List (£33,400 and the going rate), a new entrant (£33,400 and 70%), health and education jobs on national pay scales (£25,000 and the pay band), and options F to J for people first granted Skilled Worker permission before 4 April 2024 and for health and care jobs.

Search by job title or 4-digit SOC 2020 code. The checker shows whether the code is higher skilled, medium skilled (eligible only on the Immigration Salary List or the Temporary Shortage List, or for people first granted Skilled Worker permission before 22 July 2025) or not eligible, then every option with its threshold, the going rate for your hours and whether you meet it, with links to the rules. The free preview shows your job’s skill level, the eligibility rules and the first points options, with the verdict and every figure hidden; a Pro pass unlocks the verdict, the full table, the CSV and the print.

Common uses

• Checking a job offer before the sponsor assigns a certificate of sponsorship.
• Seeing which lower salary option — new entrant, PhD, Immigration Salary List — a job can use.
• Checking a part-time or long-hours job, where the going rate changes with the hours.
• Checking an extension or change of employer under the transitional rules.

The salary options

A Skilled Worker needs 20 points from one of these options, on top of sponsorship, the job’s skill level and English (Appendix Skilled Worker):

• A: £41,700 and the going rate.
• B: a PhD relevant to the job: £37,500 and 90% of the going rate.
• C: a STEM PhD relevant to the job: £33,400 and 80%.
• D: a job on the Immigration Salary List: £33,400 and the going rate.
• E: a new entrant: £33,400 and 70%.
• F to J: the same five options with the lower Table 2 going rates and thresholds of £31,300, £28,200 and £25,000, for someone first granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 (applying before 4 April 2030) or sponsored for a health and care job with a listed employer.
• K: a listed health or education job: £25,000 and the national pay scale rate.

The percentages are of the going rate in the tables, which already apply the hourly floors of £17.13 (Table 1) and £12.82 (Table 2).

Hours and what counts as salary

Going rates in Tables 1 to 2a are for a 37.5-hour week and are pro-rated: going rate × weekly hours ÷ 37.5. The general thresholds (£41,700 and the others) are not pro-rated, and only the pay for the first 48 hours a week counts towards them, while the going rate is checked against all your hours (SW 14.3 and SW 14.4). Salary is guaranteed basic gross pay, including employee pension and National Insurance contributions; overtime, shift pay, bonuses, allowances, benefits in kind and employer pension contributions do not count (SW 14.1 and SW 14.2).

Which jobs can be sponsored

Appendix Skilled Occupations sorts every SOC 2020 code (Appendix Skilled Occupations): higher-skilled codes (Tables 1, 2 and 3) are open to new applicants; medium-skilled codes (Tables 1a, 2aa and 3a) only through the Immigration Salary List or the Temporary Shortage List — each for certificates of sponsorship issued before its cut-off date — or for someone first granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 22 July 2025 who has had it continuously since; a few codes below that level (Table 2a) only to stay with the same sponsor; and the codes in Table 6 not at all. Care workers (6135) and senior care workers (6136) have extra conditions in SW 6.1B, and prison officers (3314) in SW 6.1(g).

Health and education jobs

Option K uses national pay scales: the NHS Agenda for Change bands by nation (for a 37.5-hour week, 37 hours in Scotland; band 1 and 2 jobs cannot be sponsored, and band 3 and 4 jobs only for people with Skilled Worker permission from before 22 July 2025, except nursing auxiliaries), teachers’ pay by role and area, and the grades of doctors, dentists and further education lecturers in each nation. Pay scales for a full-time post are pro-rated by the share of full time. The tables follow the Immigration Rules and contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Limitations

• Not legal advice: the Home Office decides, and the sponsor must choose the most appropriate occupation code for the job’s duties (SW 6.2).
• It does not cover the Global Business Mobility or Scale-up routes, the salary rules for settlement, or the allowances and going rates some people first sponsored as Tier 2 (General) migrants may still use (SW 14.5).
• The job must also pay at least the National Minimum Wage and follow the Working Time Regulations, and the rules and lists change often: check the linked appendices before you apply.

Privacy

Everything is checked in your browser against the occupation tables this page downloads from MySmartCoPilot; your job, salary and situation are never uploaded or stored.